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Deadly Visions
Canada 2004
produced by Harvey Kahn for Front Street Pictures, Transplant Productions
directed by Michael Scott
starring Nicolette Sheridan, Gordon Currie, Sarah Deakins, Philip Granger, Haili Page, Frida Betrani, Kyle Cassie, Patricia Idlette, Chris Gibson, Marion Eisman, Linda Darlow, David Peterson, Michael Eklund
written by John Murlowski, music by Sophia Morizet
review by Dale Pierce
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Operating on the age old belief that someone who dies violently has his
or her last glimpses of life embedded into the retina of the eye takes a
new twist here. The recipient of an eye transplant has visions of a past
life and as such, insight into an unsolved murder. You can draw your own
conclusions from there.
I will say the ending takes a surprise twist, which I'm not going to
blow, making up for points where the plot starts to drag and you think
you already have everything figured halfway through the movie.
Nicollette Sheridan, of Desperate Housewives fame, can't
really seem to carry this movie as well as one would hope. Gordon
Currie, Nicolai Carpathethia/The Antichrist of Left
Behind fame is the co-star and does an admirable job. Like
Bradford Dillman decades before, he seems to be making it his specialty
to save lackluster flicks and make them enjoyable. It is good to
see him in a multitude of roles away from the Cloud
Ten series, which will keep him from encountering the
typecasting which could easily develop due to his more famous role of
Antichrist (it is a bad sign when you watch this and marvel he is
speaking without the Romanian accent, hinting the Nicolai-stigma
may be starting to set in).
Not a great film, but not a bad one either, though originally released
as a TV movie before finding its way to DVD and video. Because of this,
the violence is a bit underplayed and the graphics are kept to a
minimal.
Various reviews and commentaries on this movie have cropped up on the
net, most of them favorable and indicating a surprise from people who
picked up a copy with nothing better to do in mind or wishing to add to
their thriller/horror DVD library, then found themselves glad they made
the purchase.
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review © by Dale Pierce
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